Breakthrough Reveals Blood Vessel Cells Are Key to Growing Unlimited Amounts of Adult Stem Cells
March 4, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Promises Broad Clinical Benefits, From Bone Marrow Transplantation to Therapies for Heart, Brain, Skin and Lungs
Using own skin cells to repair hearts on horizon
March 1, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Contact: Lisa Merkl
lkmerkl@uh.edu
713-743-8192
University of Houston Read more
Gene-based stem cell therapy specifically removes cell receptor that attracts HIV
February 24, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Contact: Enrique Rivero
erivero@mednet.ucla.edu
310-794-2273
University of California - Los Angeles
UCLA AIDS Institute researchers successfully removed CCR5 a cell receptor to which HIV-1 binds for infection but which the human body does not need from human cells. Individuals who naturally lack the CCR5 receptor have been found to be essentially resistant to HIV.
Stem cells restore sight in mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa
February 23, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Contact: Elizabeth Streich
eas2125@columbia.edu
212-305-6535
Columbia University Medical Center Read more
UTHealth research shows modified adult stem cells may be helpful in spinal cord injury
February 22, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Contact: Deborah Mann Lake
deborah.m.lake@uth.tmc.edu
713-500-3304
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
HOUSTON-(Feb. 23, 2010)-Researchers at UTHealth have demonstrated in rats that transplanting genetically modified adult stem cells into an injured spinal cord can help restore the electrical pathways associated with movement. The results are published in the Feb. 24 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
Experimental stem cell treatment arrests acute lung injury in mice, study shows
February 1, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Contact: Robert Cahill
Robert.Cahill@uth.tmc.edu
713-500-3030
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Stem cell researchers exploring a new approach for the care of respiratory diseases report that an experimental treatment involving transplantable lung cells was associated with improved outcomes in tests on mice with acute lung injury. The lung cells were derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). Findings by investigators at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston are scheduled to appear in the March issue of Molecular Therapy.
Bone marrow cells are the answer hp stem cell breakthrough
January 27, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Contact: Cody Mooneyhan
cmooneyhan@faseb.org
301-634-7104
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Read more
Disarming specialized stem cells might combat deadly ovarian cancer
January 26, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Contact: Karen N. Peart
karen.peart@yale.edu
203-432-1326
Yale University
Eliminating cancer stem cells (CSCs) within a tumor could hold the key to successful treatments for ovarian cancer, which has been notoriously difficult to detect and treat, according to new findings published this week in the journal Oncogene by Yale School of Medicine researchers.
New way to generate abundant functional blood vessel cells from human stem cells discovered
January 19, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Contact: Andrew Klein
ank2017@med.cornell.edu
212-821-0560
New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College Read more
Umbilical-cord blood units successfully treat leukemia for first time
Contact: Dean Forbes
dforbes@fhcrc.org
206-667-2896
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
SEATTLE Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have cleared a major technical hurdle to making umbilical-cord-blood transplants a more widely-used method for treating leukemia and other blood cancers.
